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⌈ Secret Post #5602 ⌋

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It's Ncuti Gatwa, who was in Sex Education apparently.

Thoughts? Opinions?

I don't know him at all so no opinions lol. I just hope the stories are better. I loved Jodie but it felt like she didn't have great writing to work with.

Same-same. I don't know this guy from Adam but he has a nice face, and I hope he gets some fun stuff to do.

Plus apparently he's Scottish which is always a plus for the Doctor lol!

I’m not familiar with the actor, but I’m looking forward to seeing his take on the Doctor.

I don't know anything about him as an actor. Thrilled it is a black man, though. All the people who were angry that 11 was a woman and claimed that RTD would "set things right" must be steaming.

I always wait and see how they are before making any judgments on the choice. I haven't disliked any of them yet.

I'm so weary of these arguments before it's even started.

DA

I admit I'm cynical. We'll see what comes of it, but I feel like it's very common to do "okay we gave you a woman and a black man, so now we're gonna go back to nothing but white guys and we better not hear you complain about it!"

i mean we wont know until at least 2 doctors from now

Wasn't Jodie 13? Matt was 11?

Yup. She was 13. Woops. I need to go to sleep.

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nah, there were tons of regenerations as a kid so jodie was one million and thirteen

have never heard of him, so "doctor WHO?"

still not ginger

Just waiting for RTD to do something racist and show his ass like he did with the random ass Martha and Mickey marriage as if the reason the only two black characters there for more than two minutes got together wasn't transparent as all fuck.

Well if he hasn't changed/evolved his writing style in 10 years then yeah its probably doomed.

I don't see why. His original era was extremely popular in terms of viewership and nearly everything he's done in the last decade has been critically adored. Of course it's still very possible that he'll fail, nobody knows what's going to happen. And clearly, plenty of people clearly dislike him regardless of how popular he is. But I don't think there's any reason based on his track record to think he's doomed.

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I still refuse to believe Martha would break off her engagement with Hotty McDoctor to get with Mickey of all people.

Same. It's so infuriating.

+1

I stay mad about Martha's arc. She was my favorite. And then they just drop her off with Mickey like that.

I am pretty sure this reading is in a bad faith. Some things are not racism and are just a poor writing and/or some meddling.
Anyway I hope that he have learned some lessons or will get better writing room. If not, well, Chibnall killed a lot of interest to DW anyway

NAYRT

Maybe not racist, but perhaps straddling the line in some ways of including old tropes from racist eras in entertainment. You don’t have to be a full on racist for it to still be a bit iffy to immediately pair up two black characters who have barely interacted, on a show that’s predominantly white. Granted, his run, and the ones after him were rather diverse, so I know “predominantly white” isn’t exactly the case. But this pairing that came out of nowhere is still suspect regardless of that. I don’t believe RTD knowingly racist, or even racist at all. But I do believe he doesn’t think about the implications of these types of decisions.

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The only two black characters with more than five seconds of screen time show up married in the finale for no reason when I can't even remember if they actually interacted, even though one of them was previously engaged to someone else. And SOMEHOW this isn't racist to you.

Seconded. I'm still stewing about the stupidity of that "plot".

I agree. I love Thirteen and most of her run, but that change was stupid and should be ignored or explained away.

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